Dr. Kirsten Beyer is an associate professor in the Division of Epidemiology in the Institute for Health & Equity at the Medical College of Wisconsin, director of the PhD Program Public & Community Health, and co-director of the Geospatial Epidemiology and Outcomes (GEO) shared resource of the MCW Cancer Center. As a health geographer, Dr. Beyer’s work focuses on the intersection of health, place, and social justice. Her research passion is to identify environmental and systematic causes of health disparities, and to apply a translational research framework, including community engaged research, to move research findings into program and policy interventions to close the gaps.
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Spatial Analysis
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Health Disparities
greenspace
Racial segregation
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Racial segregation
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greenspace
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Spatial Analysis
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Health Disparities
Short Biography
Dr. Kirsten Beyer is an associate professor in the Division of Epidemiology in the Institute for Health & Equity at the Medical College of Wisconsin, director of the PhD Program Public & Community Health, and co-director of the Geospatial Epidemiology and Outcomes (GEO) shared resource of the MCW Cancer Center. As a health geographer, Dr. Beyer’s work focuses on the intersection of health, place, and social justice. Her research passion is to identify environmental and systematic causes of health disparities, and to apply a translational research framework, including community engaged research, to move research findings into program and policy interventions to close the gaps.
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